Mac Mini Vs G3 Blue & White Tower

Alright here is my question, we have a G3 right now that is running on OSX 3. something. I use this computer mostly for the net, Itunes, and photos and it a dog, it's slow and needs to be upgraded. So I thought, I might as well spend the money on a mini. The wife who uses the G3 for work sometimes when she is at home, doesn't think we will gain anything. She uses indesign, photoshop, things designers use. Since I don't use any of these programs, I think she's crazy. It would have to be better, could it be worse? I'm looking for a nuetral 3rd party, please help..

In itself a new mini would be WAY faster than your existing G3 - and for a general point of reference, the $799 mini has broadly similar performance to the original G5 dual processor 2Hz power mac released in late 2003.
Thus, on the face of it, you are right and your wife is wrong.
However, it's not quite that simple. Firstly, the mini uses generally slower laptop hard drives that spin at 5400rpm, and this tends to place a limit on their performance. In your case, your G3 likely also has the same general performance drives so that won't matter. What WILL though is the software being used.
For you, using iTunes, iPhoto, browsing the internet and such like, a mini would be like night and day in comparison to your G3. This is because these applications are written to run 'natively' on the Intel processors in the mini, so they run at full speed. The software your wife uses (inDesign and Photoshop) is written to run on the older G3, G4 and G5 processors. These will actually run on the Intel hardware, but require Rosetta, which is an application that does on-the-fly translation to allow PPC-based software to run on Intel-based hardware. It works, but isn't so fast, so her experience would not be so great.
To optimize performance, ideally you'd want to go for maxed out RAM of 2Gb. That would give Rosetta plenty of memory of it's own to run in, and a decent bit left for the application too. It won't be so fast, but it would be a notable improvement for her.
Of course, as and when new versions of these applications become available, they WILL be native, so she will then be able to gain the same performance boost that you'll enjoy from your software!
If it was me, I'd get one. In the short term it would improve your use markedly and give her some speed benefits too. In the long term with updated software, she would discover that the mini leaves the old G3 standing!

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